302 Stapf. — The Statices of the Canaries of 
published, having been forestalled by Boissier’s monograph of the Plumba- 
gineae. The manuscript is at present in the Institut Botanique of 
Montpellier, and Mr. R. N. Rudmose Brown has been good enough to copy 
for me the passage in question. It runs thus : — ‘ Hab. (viz. Statice macro - 
phylla) Teneriffe, loco dicto la Puenta de Teno nec non Passo de la Cueva 
legebat olim Broussonetus.’ Punta de Teno is the westernmost point 
of the island, close to El Freyle where the stunted form of Statice 
arborea (pp. 208 and 212) still occurs. The other locality I could not 
trace exactly ; but I assume it is a place not far to the east of Cape 
Hidalgo and above Cueva de Pope, a locality marked in Webb’s map of 
Teneriffe. If this is correct, Paso de la Cueva comes within the area 
where Statice macrophylla has been observed in more recent times. This 
is a small belt of rocky coast-land, extending from somewhere near Punta 
del Viento towards Taganana, and skirting the northern slopes of the 
Anaga Hills. The first after Broussonet to collect it there were Webb and 
Berthelot, who in 1828 or 1829 found it ‘ in montosis herbidis Teneriffae 
ad vallem de la Goleta et ad montem Bajamar 1 .’ According to Webb’s 
map La Goleta is a small valley extending 3 or 4 km. inland, from 
a point a little to the east of Punta del Viento, and west of the Mesa 
de Tejina. L. von Buch has it farther east, and Bolle’s 2 description would 
also seem to place it east of the Mesa de Tejina and immediately at the 
western end of the cliffs of the Costa de Bajamar which trends towards 
Punta del Hidalgo. Possibly Webb’s indication of locality refers to one 
place oniy, and should read ‘La Goleta, ad montem Bajamar’ as indeed 
Bourgeau, who collected the plant in the same place in 1846, puts it in 
his label (‘ in rupestribus herbosis vallis de la Goleta, Bajamar ’). 
Perraudiere found it nine years later (March 29, 1855) c in collibus ad 
marginem sylvarum Anaga.’ This is somewhat vague ; but as Perraudiere 
collected on the 20th of the same month in ‘ Anaga. reg. bor. media,’ it 
is practically certain that he meant the northern slopes of the Anaga 
Hills. Here, east of Punta del Hidalgo, it was observed by Dr. Cabrera 
(as the Rev. R. P. Murray informs me) near Taborno among rocks in 1901, 
and according to a note from Dr. Perez, which I owe to the courtesy of 
the same gentleman, it occurs plentifully in the valley of Afur, at a spot 
called ‘El Tablero,’ a sort of headland above the sea, and about 2-5 km. 
to the west of Taganana. Taking Punta del Viento as the western and 
El Tablero as the eastern end of this area, its length would be about 
25 km. To this would, however, as Dr. Perez has just informed me, have 
to be added an outlying and hitherto unknown station on the high cliffs 
below the ‘ Calvary ’ of Santa Ursula, 5 km. to the north-east of the town 
1 Webb et Berthelot, Histoire natnrelle des lies Canaries, III, iii, p. 180. See also their 
Atlas, tab. ii and iii. 
2 Bolle in Zeitsehrift fur allgemeine Erdkunde, vol. xl (1861), p. 89. 
